People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

At a glance and at times, snow can look a little blue. There is an interesting reason for this blue-colored snow and you ...

NASA has just released two images from its recent near-infrared SPHEREx mission. This is an incredible near-infrared space ...

Here's how our brains construct color in our environment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In essence, how can colors appear ...

For more than two centuries, astronomers have treated the Sun’s spectrum as a solved problem, a textbook example of how light ...

The rainbow looks different to a human than it does to a honeybee or a zebra finch. That’s because these animals can see colors that we humans simply can’t. Now scientists have developed a new video ...

It is a bit tamer than you might imagine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you look up at the night sky, it's easy to think ...

Scientists have used a new lens to focus all the colors of the rainbow into one point. This is the first time a single lens has been used to focus the entire spectrum of light, including white light.

During a total solar eclipse, people may see some strange things. Sure, there’s the main event happening in the sky (SN: 1/4/24). But the world may also look a little different on the ground. For a ...

The color purple is, in a way, invented by our brains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world is awash with the color purple — ...